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ARBORICULTURE 



The Incentive to Forest Planting. 



No other influence save that of per- 

 sonal profit to the individual land owner 

 will cause the restoration of American 

 forests. Only by seeing a liberal in- 

 terest upon the investment of time, labor 

 and money, will there be any forests 

 planted. 



Patriotism, duty to posterity, National 

 and State necessities, the interest of the 

 hmibermen, perpetuation of manufactur- 

 ing industries, the requirements of the 

 farm have been the theme for half a cen- 

 tury, and every argument within the 

 scope of man's mind has been advanced 

 to induce the United States and various 

 State authorities to restore our forests 

 to a sufficient extent that future genera- 

 tions may be supplied with timber, while 

 individual land owners have been ap- 

 pealed to, but without result. 



The reason is apparent. No one wants 

 to plant oak, hickory, elm, sugar maple 

 or any slow-growing trees of our native 

 forests because of the great length of 

 time required for them to matuie. 

 Scarcely any forest areas have been 

 planted to continue the wood supply be- 

 vond the present generation when Amer- 

 ican forests, as such, will have become 

 exhausted. 



The International Society of Arbori- 

 culture, by appealing to the great cor- 

 porate land owners and to the railways 

 which now see the absolute necessity of 

 providing timber quickly, and by show- 

 ing these organizations the advantages 

 possessed by catalpa wood, its great 

 value for timber, rapid growth and great 

 usefulness, and by pointing out the finan- 

 cial returns which mav reasonably be ex- 



pected, has secured the planting of more 

 than ten million forest trees, and aroused 

 an enthusiasm among planters of trees 

 which has never existed before in the 

 history of the world, and yet tlie new 

 era for arboriculture has just begun. 



It augurs ill when men, high in au- 

 thority, with great influence in the world 

 of science and forestry, attempt to dis- 

 suade those who are already convinced 

 of its necessity from planting trees, and 

 especially is this true when from errors 

 of their own such authorities have not 

 learned the truth in regard to the tree 

 which they malign. 



ARTHUR COWEE. 



It is the man who makes a specialty of 

 some line and pursues it with energy 

 who succeeds in life. 



Arthur Cowee, of Berlin, N. Y., has 

 made a life study of the Gladioli, among 

 the most beautiful of our bulbous flow- 

 ers. Acres of these handsome flowers 

 are grown at his Meadowvale farm, 

 while much time is devoted to this im- 

 provement by selections of the finest 

 seedlings. There is no plant which 

 gives greater satisfaction and a hand- 

 somer showing during almost the entire 

 summer than does the Gladiolus. 



At the World's Fair. St. Louis, Mr. 

 Cowee had several acres of his flowers 

 on exhibition, and received the Grand 

 Prize. We saw these Gladioli during 

 the long summer at St. Louis Fair, and 

 can attest the magnificence of his dis- 

 play. 



